The booklet for the service. My purple admission bracelet holds down the 48-page booklet so I could take these selected pictures.
The Opening Acclamation and the Presentation
The Litany for Ordinations
The Holy Gospel, read in EnglishThe First Lesson was read in Chinese and the Second Lesson in Spanish, reflecting the diversity of this diocese.
The Examination of the bishop-elect
The Creed led by the bishop-elect
The Consecration of the Bishop. The choir sang "Veni sancte spiritus" about a hundred times as all the bishops and the PB gathered around Fr. Provenzano and laid hands on him. The central moment. Very moving.
The new bishop was vested. The Peace. The new bishop then celebrated communion, which several thousand people received. Then the Retiring Procession. All of these elements of the service were accompanied by or engulfed in music, which will be the subject of another post.
The Entrance Procession
The Pectoral CrossP.S. I hope someone will put the whole booklet online.
2 comments:
Interesting experience - the service seems to reflect a more elaborate Catholic sensibility than the Methodists that we once knew from the little Union Village Church would have celebrated.
Thank you so much for sharing all this. We are in a search for a new bishop here. We are losing a wonderful bishop. So we will be having an installment service here in a year or two, I imagine, but I will probably not attend the service.
When the presiding bishop came here she did visit our little "refugee church" and for the occasion our music director wrote a hymn in her honor. Lovely.
Yes, it is true, Biddie, that Episcopalians are both Catholic and Protestant. And very democratic as well.
I look forward, Pris, to your post about the music. I am so glad you experienced this.
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